In 1993, a newborn girl was abandoned and brought to a Chinese orphanage.
She lived less than 24 hours.

She died without a name, without a family.
But her short life touched a young man’s heart and inspired a commitment to
compassion and care.

International China Concern (ICC) was founded in 1993 by David Gotts after seeing firsthand the suffering of Chinese children with disabilities who had been abandoned and left without hope in desperate conditions.

In the beginning, ICC sent short-term teams into China to provide care in government welfare centres. Later, we established permanent locations which provide full-time family-style care for children in Changsha and Hengyang in Hunan Province.